2024-2029 mandate Flashcards
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List of EC priorites fro 2024-2029
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- A new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitivenes
- A new era for European Defence and Security
- Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model
- Sustaining our quality of life: Food security, water and nature
- Protecting our democracy, upholding our values
- A global Europe: Leveraging our power and partnerships
- Delivering together and preparing our Union for the future
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European Council priorites for 2024-2029
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- a free and democratic Europe
- a strong and secure Europe
- a prosperous and competitive Europe
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Objectives of “ A new plan for Europe’s sustainable prosperity and competitivenes”
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- Making business easier to foster economic growth
- A Clean Industrial Deal to support EU’s competitive industries and create quality jobs
- A more circular and resilient economy to transition to more sustainable production and consumption practices
- Boosting productivity with digital tech diffusion to strengthen EU’s competitiveness and become a leader in AI innovation
- Putting research and innovation at the heart of our economy
- Turbo charging investment to accelerate green, digital and social transition
- Tackling the skills and labour gaps to improve people’s careers and economic competitiveness
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Objectives of “A new era for European Defence and Security”
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- Build a European Defence Union to protect the European Union and its people
- Enhance preparedness and crisis management to stand ready to react to crises
- Improve internal security to address all threats online and offline
- Strengthen common borders to make them more secure
- Manage migration fairly and firmly
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Share of citizens that think the EU needs to reinforce its capacity to produce military equipment
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77%
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Europeans that are in favour of a common defence and security policy
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77%
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Objectives of “Supporting people, strengthening our societies and our social model”
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- Deliver opportunities, stability and wellbeing for everyone
- Strengthen our social market model to ensure a just transition for all
- Tackle inequality, regional disparities and discrimination
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Most important social priority for Europeans
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Standard of living
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Share of people that believe there will be a more social Europe by 2030
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54%
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Share of citizens that consider a social Europe to be important to them personally
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88%
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Objectives of “Sustaining our quality of life: food security, water and nature”
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- Build a competitive and resilient agriculture and food system and safeguard biodiversity to support our farmers and safeguard our healthy food
- Adapt and prepare for a changing climate to be ready and help those affected
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- Number of farmers in EU
- Number of people working in agriculture
- Cost of natural hazards in EU from 1980 - 2022
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- Number of farmers in EU: 9 million
- Number of people working in agriculture: 17 million
- Cost of natural hazards in EU from 1980 - 2022: EUR 650 billion
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Objectives of “Protecting our democracy, upholding our values”
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- Protect and defend democracy and increase societal resilience and preparedness
- Strengthen the rule of law for a fair and well-functioning society
- Champion civic engagement and participation to bring citizens’ ideas at the heart of policy-making
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Share of Europeans agree that the rapid spread of disinformation is a major problem for democracy
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86%
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Share of Europeans that believe that foreign interference in our democratic systems is a serious problem that needs to be addressed
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81%
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Share of of EU citizens recognise the importance of the respect for EU values, including the rule of la
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90%
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Objectives of “A global Europe: leveraging our power and partnership”
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- Enlarging the European Union to increase our influence on the global stage
- Focusing on our wider neighbourhood to promote peace, partnerships and economic stability
- Pursuing a new economic foreign policy to boost our prosperity, trading power, and mutually beneficial partnerships
- Reforming the international system to make it fit for today’s world
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Share of of EU citizens that are in favour of a common foreign policy of EU countries
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69%
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Share of people that agree that the EU is a place of stability in a troubled world
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67%
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Share of people that agree the EU has sufficient tools to defend its economic interests in the global economy
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69%
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Objective of “Delivering together and preparing our Union for the future”
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- A new budget fit for our ambitions to use our financial capacity in the best way possible
- An ambitious reform agenda for Europe to ensure the proper functioning of a larger Union
- Strengthen partnership with the European Parliament to deliver more effectively together
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Number of people that benefitted from people benefited from the Support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE) in 2020
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31.5 million
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amount disbursed for economic recovery of EU countries thanks to NextGenerationEU
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EUR 270 billion
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EVPs
1. Teresa Ribera (ES)
Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
2. Henna Virkkunen (FI)
Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
3. Stéphane Séjourné (FR)
Prosperity and Industrial Strategy
4. Kaja Kallas (ES)
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President
5. Roxana Mînzatu (RO)
Social Rights and Skills, Quality Jobs and Preparedness
6. Raffaele Fitto (IT)
Cohesion and Reforms
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Commissioners
* Maroš Šefčovič (SK), Trade and Economic Security, Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency
* Valdis Dombrovskis (LT), Economy and Productivity, Implementation and Simplification
* Dubravka Šuica (HR), Mediterranean
* Olivér Várhelyi (HU), Health and Animal Welfare
* Wopke Hoekstra (NL), Climate, net zero and clean growth
* Andrius Kubilius (LV), Defence and Space
* Marta Kos (SI), enlargement
* Jozef Síkela (CZ), international partnerships
* Costas Kadis (CY), Fisheries and Ocean
* Maria Luís Albuquerque (PT), Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union
* Hadja Lahbib (BE), Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management
* Magnus Brunner (AU) Internal Affairs and Migration
* Jessika Roswall (SE), Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy
* Piotr Serafin (PL) Budget, Anti-Fraud and Public Administration
* Dan Jørgensen (DK) Energy and Housing
* Ekaterina Zaharieva (BG) Startups, Research and Innovation
* Michael McGrath (IE) Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
* Apostolos Tzitzikostas (GR) Sustainable Transport and Tourism
* Christophe Hansen (LU) Agriculture and Food
* Glenn Micallef (MT) Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport
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100 day initiative
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The Competitiveness Compass: 3 tranformational imperatives and 5 horizontal eablers
- Closing the innovation gap
- A joint roadmap for decarbonisation and competitiveness
- Reducing excessive dependencies and increasing security
5 enablers:
- simplifying
- single market rmoving barrers
- financing through Savings and Investment Union
- Skills and quality jobs
- Better coordinating policy at EU and national level
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Clean Industrial Deal: 2 sectors in focus and 6 drievrs
1. i) Energy-intensive industries and clean tech
2. Drivers: Lower energy costs, Boosting demand for clean products (lead markets), Financing the Clean Transition, Circularity and access to materials, Acting on a global scale, Ensuring access to skilled workforce, Simplification
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CID: financing
- In the short-term, the Clean Industrial Deal will mobilise over €100 billion to support EU-made clean manufacturing. This amount includes an additional €1 billion guarantees under the current Multiannual Financial Framework
- Adopt a new Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework. It will allow for simplified and quicker approval of State aid measures for the roll-out of renewable energy, deploy industrial decarbonisation and ensure sufficient manufacturing capacity of clean tech.
- Strengthen the Innovation Fund and propose an Industrial Decarbonisation Bank, aiming for €100 billion in funding, based on available funds in the Innovation Fund, additional revenues resulting from parts of the ETS as well as the revision of InvestEU.
- Amend the InvestEU Regulation to increase InvestEU's risk bearing capacity. This will mobilise up to €50 billion in additional private and public investment, including in clean tech, clean mobility and waste reduction.
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CID: circularity, including target
Set up a mechanism enabling European companies to come together and aggregate their demand for critical raw materials.
Create an EU Critical Raw Material Centre to jointly purchase raw materials on behalf of interested companies. Joint purchases create economies of scale and offer more leverage to negotiate better prices and conditions.
Adopt a Circular Economy Act in 2026 to accelerate the circular transition and ensure that scarce materials are used and reused efficiently, reduce our global dependencies and create high quality jobs. The aim is to have 24% of materials circular by 2030.
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CID: affordable energy
Affordable Energy Action Plan will lower energy costs for business
and citizens
* Tackling volatile prices by making Power Purchase Agreements
more attractive for industrial users
* Switch to domestically produced clean energy
➔ Increase economy-wide electrification rate from 21.3% to 32% in 2030
➔ Install 100 GW of renewable electricity capacity every year until 2030
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Union of Skills aim
It aims to
- deliver higher levels of basic and advanced skills
- provide opportunities for people to regularly update and learn new skills
- facilitate recruitment by businesses across the EU
- attract, develop and retain top talent in Europe
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Trans-European Networks for Energy
priority areas and covered tech
11 priority geographical corridors covering
electricity
offshore grids
hydrogen and electrolysers infrastructure development
and 3 priority thematic areas covering
smart electricity grids
smart gas grids
CO2 networks
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Union of skills plans to (4 pillars)
Build skills for quality lives and jobs
Upskill and reskill for the digital & green transition
Circulate skills across the EU for
competitiveness for Europe’s future
Attract, develop and retain talent for Europe's future
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How much is EU invesing for skills?
The EU is investing over €150 billion to support people, businesses, education
institutions and others to develop the education and skills needed for a thriving,
competitive European econom
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Union of skills new targts
The share of underachievement in literacy, mathematics, science and digital skills should be less than 15%, whereas the share of top performance in literacy, mathematics and science should be at least 15%;
The share of students enrolled in STEM fields in initial medium-level VET should be at least 45%, with at least 1 out of every 4 students female;
The share of students enrolled in STEM fields in third-level education be at least 32%, with at least 2 out of 5 students female;
The share of students enrolled in ICT PhD programmes should be at least 5%, with at least 1 out of every 3 students female.
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Rural vision ten shared goals
I. Attractive spaces, developed in harmonious territorial development,
II. Engaged in multi-level and place-based governance,
III. Providers of food security, economic opportunities, goods and services for wider society
IV. Dynamic communities focusing on well-being,
V. Inclusive communities
VI. Flourishing sources of nature,
VII. Fully benefiting from digital innovation
VIII. Entrepreneurial, innovative and skilled people,
IX. Lively places equipped with efficient, accessible and affordable public and private services
X. Places of diversity
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Affordable energy aciton plan 4 pillars
Lowering energy costs for all
Completing the Energy Union
Attracting investments and ensuring delivery
Being ready for potential energy crises
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Affordable energy aciton plan 8 pillars
Action 1 - Making electricity bills more affordable
Action 2 - Bring down the cost of electricity supply
Action 3 – Ensure well-functioning gas markets
Action 4 – Energy efficiency - delivering energy savings
Action 5 - Complete the Energy Union
Action 6 – A tripartite contract to ensure affordable energy for Europe’s industry
Action 7 - Guarantee security of supply for price stability
Action 8 - Price crisis preparedness
